Okay, my pecan pie is out of the oven and looks pretty good. I got the recipe from Elise’s Simply Recipes site, which I read regularly via Bloglines. Her recipese always look so good and they’re very easy to follow. I’m a nervous cook and always take forever fussing around getting ingredients set up in advance, then repeatedly check and re-check before I finally start combining. I will say that her recipe is a snap to put together, much easier than one I saw that involved cooking the sugars on the stove first until they got to the “crackle” stage (it’s a candymaking term, something I learned about in junior high home ec, and not a happy memory either). So I have high hopes for this pie and have enough ingredients to make another one if I feel like it. Although I went with a frozen crust for this one, and I’d have to make a scratch crust, and I’m even more trepidatious of those.

We leave in about an hour to go to David’s aunt’s place so I have to get cleaned up and get my transport system pulled together. I got an idea from Alton Brown about that – we don’t have a pizza box handy, but we do have non-skid shelf liners and shallow cardboard boxes. Heh. They used to hold cans of cat food. I will chuckle evilly about this (but assure the allergic members of the family that the cat has not been anywhere near the boxes).
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Title: I want pie

By: GinnyRED57

Originally uploaded: 24 Nov ’05, 7.28pm PST